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Maryam Jamshidi

Maryam Jamshidi is an Associate Professor of Law at the University of Colorado Law School, where she writes and teaches about international law, national security, and tort law.

POSTS BY Maryam Jamshidi

15 October 2024

Maryam Jamshidi

Unseating the Israeli Government from the UN General Assembly in case of non-compliance with the Advisory Opinion of 19 July 2024

This post analyses the possibility of unseating the Israeli Government from the UN General Assembly in case of non-compliance with the Advisory Opinion of 19 July 2024. The Advisory Opinion provides a particularly strong legal basis – grounded primarily in the right to self-determination – to unseat Israel’s government from the General Assembly until it complies with the Opinion – as the Assembly did with South Africa fifty years ago. Continue reading >>